People who think they know usually stopped thinking long ago.
Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar.
There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We mistake kindness for weakness in individuals, too. Gandhi found the essence of Christianity to be gentleness, the exaltation of means over ends. Using violence, against us or them, to achieve peace is like beating children to get them to be good. It only works in the short term. Believe in peace, think peace, live peace. Be a building-block of peace. Make it the center of your strength.
Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there.
Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.
You are much more than the sum of what you produce.
People are beginning to realize that self-knowledge is not an end in itself. It's for the purpose of better relationships, so that we can give to our community. You can give from overflow. It's very hard to give from emptiness. . . . People who avoid self-knowledge cause a great deal of pain to themselves as well as to their families and friends.
The journey toward the heart is always a journey home.
There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world.
Enlightenment is being able to go to your own home and feel comfortable.
You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.
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